Factset Philippines - worst job in my life - Financial Analyst FactSet Employee Review

1.0
Mar 12, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work-life balance is not too bad. .

Cons

Had been working there for around 1 year in 2015-2016 as a "financial analyst". Absolutely the worst job I have ever had and the worst company I've ever seen. Absolute majority of the management is unqualified, the company is extremely cheap, paying low wages to empoyees, while trying to pretend to be nice by giving employees insultingly cheap "gifts" like small packs of the cheapest you can find juice or unhealthy and pretty much uneatable by normal people food. But the most important part and the reason why I want to leave the review, is the office. The company doesn't care about it's employees health. It's a typical closed office space with a lot of aircons. The aircons are not maintained right, no one cleans them ever (to cut cost, which seems like an obvious reason). This effects employees who get sick very often due to the constantly weakened immunity system. This is a well-known problem not just among the Factset employees, but also among employees of other corporations (I'm guessing they are also cheap and treating employees as an expandable material) occupying other floors of the building. It is very easy to see how a job in Factset ruins people's health, relatively slowly but steadily. Advicing everyone NOT to consider a job in this company. P.S.: oh yeah, forgot to mention - Factset promotes itself as a reputable American company. Do not be fooled. The Manila subdivisiin is managed primarily by Facset's Indian subsidiary. So expect indian "high standards" in everything.

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